Advocates for Responsible Treatment is a grassroots volunteer organization comprised of concerned residents of Southern California, united in our determination to have a voice in the future of addiction rehabilitation in our cities.
Our Mission
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As a unified voice for Southern California,
• to promote higher standards and enforcement of resident care • to ensure that recovery businesses act as good neighbors, operating in a safe, humane and legal manner • to reduce the excessive number of transient care facilities in our neighborhoods • to eliminate the loopholes encouraging over-concentration of transient recovery |
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The Challenge
California addiction rehabilitation today is a quagmire of lax regulation, limited oversight, pseudo-science and snake-oil salesmen promising hope to desperate clients for the cost of a retirement, college education or second mortgage. Throw in loose insurance and tax payer funding, provide the operators with complete anonymity and zero criminal background checks, and the result? Recovering addicts in California are dying from inappropriate, incompetent or downright illegal treatment. The best exposé at the moment can be found at the Orange County Register.
In 2018, when counting licensed residences, cities with the greatest density were Malibu, Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa, Dana Point, Laguna Hills, San Juan Capistrano, and San Clemente, and these remain among the most concentrated. Unlicensed residences have proliferated in all of these cities as well as Huntington Beach, Laguna Niguel and Mission Viejo. As an example, at any one point in time, San Juan Capistrano has ~31 state licensed sites in a city of 35,000. EIGHTEEN of these are licensed Treatment Centers, and most have satellite homes--many of which are unlicensed--operating in neighborhoods. THIRTEEN are licensed Detoxes. Indeed, across Southwestern Orange County, businesses are presently renting and purchasing multiple properties in single-family neighborhoods on the same street. With access to money traditional home purchasers don't have--business loans in particular--they are displacing permanent families our cities need. In short, these businesses are exploiting the character of our cities at the very real cost of lives--of the very vulnerable people they are supposed to protect.
In 2018, when counting licensed residences, cities with the greatest density were Malibu, Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa, Dana Point, Laguna Hills, San Juan Capistrano, and San Clemente, and these remain among the most concentrated. Unlicensed residences have proliferated in all of these cities as well as Huntington Beach, Laguna Niguel and Mission Viejo. As an example, at any one point in time, San Juan Capistrano has ~31 state licensed sites in a city of 35,000. EIGHTEEN of these are licensed Treatment Centers, and most have satellite homes--many of which are unlicensed--operating in neighborhoods. THIRTEEN are licensed Detoxes. Indeed, across Southwestern Orange County, businesses are presently renting and purchasing multiple properties in single-family neighborhoods on the same street. With access to money traditional home purchasers don't have--business loans in particular--they are displacing permanent families our cities need. In short, these businesses are exploiting the character of our cities at the very real cost of lives--of the very vulnerable people they are supposed to protect.
Take Action
File a Grievance if you are a recovering addict and
a VICTIM of abuse or fraud perpetrated by a rehab operator in a residence.
a VICTIM of abuse or fraud perpetrated by a rehab operator in a residence.